Namibia's Forgotten Genocide - How Bushmen Were Hunted and Killed Under German Colonial Rule

Namibia's Forgotten Genocide - How Bushmen Were Hunted and Killed Under German Colonial Rule

Analysis - The genocide of Namibia's Ovaherero and Nama people by German colonial forces (1904-1907) is widely documented. But much less is made of what came next - the genocide of the country's Bushmen, also known as the San.

Namibia’s forgotten genocide: how Bushmen were hunted and killed under German colonial rule

The genocide of Namibia’s Ovaherero and Nama people by German colonial forces (1904-1907) is widely documented. But much less is made of what came next – the genocide of the country’s Bushmen, also known as the San. In 1992, anthropologist Robert J. Gordon published a book, The Bushman Myth and the Making of a Namibian Underclass, about these indigenous people of Namibia and how they were hunted and turned into servants by German colonisers. Now…

Namibia’s Forgotten Genocide: How Bushmen Were Hunted And Killed Under German Colonial Rule - Global Upfront Newspapers

By Robert J. Gordon Germany’s genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama has been well documented, but the massacre of the Bushmen from 1912 to 1915 is seldom discussed The genocide of Namibia’s Ovaherero and Nama people by German colonial forces (1904-1907) is widely documented. But much less is made of what came next – the genocide of the country’s Bushmen, also known as the San. In 1992, anthropologist Robert J. Gordon published a book, The Bushman …